I'm currently a Fellow in the MFA program at Chapman University. ​In 2015 I finished my MA in Creative Writing at the University of Toronto, where my mentor is Charles Foran. I’ve also taken workshops with David Bezmozgis, Richard Greene, Robert McGill, and Richard Bausch.

In 2014, I moved with my academic family from our hometown of Hamilton, Ontario to Southern California for my husband’s work. I'm a college teacher, a freelance editor, and I've worked at libraries on and off since I was a teenager. I have three daughters, who have the names, my friend tells me, of a trio of trapeze artists. The youngest of these is now five.